Question I understand and appreciate the explanation you gave me regarding prayers during a state of menses. However in the course of the answer I learned something else which I felt needed clarification. You said that a woman in a state of menses cannot do Hajj or Umrah (as well as prayers). Suppose a woman […]
Clarification Sought Regarding Dhikr
Question The question I asked originally referred to the practice of taking some time out from your worldly distractions, sitting down in some quiet place and doing nothing else but stating sentences that glorify and praise Allah. I myself have done this many times, and have seen others do it too, so I know the […]
Further Exchange Regarding Masturbation During Fasting
Question You say masturbation should be refrained from during fasting. But if someone indulges in such act, then what would be the fate of that fast? Whether would it be stable? What would be the penalty, if no more stable? Answer As a corollary of my opinion given in my original response, I hold that […]
Rubbing on the Socks – How Can We Say It’s Sunnah?
Question In my last question I asked you brother about the allowance of rubbing the socks for Wozoo and in Particular I asked you about two ahadith from Ali (RA) and Ayesha (RAa) that reject the allowance. The answer that you gave me sound a bit simplistic to me and as I know that you […]
Classification of More Directives of the Prophet (pbuh)
Question Could you please explain how you classify the following directives of the Prophet (pbuh) mentioned in the Hadith? Forbiddance of giving punishment by burning in fire. Forbiddance to recite Qur’an in Ruku during prayer. Forbiddance to keep dog in house except for hunting, guarding and forbiddance for selling it for price. Forbiddance for inheriting […]
More on Supplications for the Prophet (pbuh)
Question Thank you very much for your response. May God reward you and all those who are behind ‘Understanding Islam’. You clarified that reciting Darood is not a religious ritual but it is a supplication for the Prophet (pbuh). But how about the authenticity of the following hadiths ascribed to the Prophet (pbuh). [I’m sorry […]
Further Queries Regarding Recitation of Surah-Al-Faatihah in Prayers as a Sunnah
Question I am still not very clear regarding the recitation of Surah-AlFathihah during prayers as a Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh), after reading your response. Please clarify my following doubts regarding the same. You wrote that Recitation of Surah Al-Faatihah during prayers is a Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh), during the first two rak`ahs of […]
Is Reciting Surah Al-Faatihah in Prayer a Sunnah?
Question You explained that even now Sunnah is determined based on consensus of the Muslims. I’ve come to know quite a large number of Muslims and “scholars” who don’t even recite Surah-Fathihah in afternoon prayers (namely Zuhar and Asar). They don’t hold it to be ‘compulsory’ to recite it in every Prayer and are contented […]
Friday Prayers & the Muslim State
Question What is the proof that it is not obligatory for Muslim communities, in non Muslim countries, to organize the Friday prayer? Answer According to the Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh), the Jum`ah congregation and the Jum`ah prayers are to be organized by the Islamic state and the Jum`ah address is to be delivered by […]
The Islamic State and the Citizen
Question In your answer, you write: …from a practical perspective, besides the establishment of Sala’h and the payment of Zaka’h, the state cannot ‘extract’ or enforce obedience upon its Muslim citizens… Though I can quite easily envisage how the Islamic State might collect the Zakaah from the individual Muslim citizen, I do not quite see […]